Bible Verses About Facial Hair
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for facial hair, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,720 votes, led by Leviticus 19:27. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Facial Hair
Leviticus 19:27282 votes
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
2 Samuel 10:4-5171 votes
Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
Leviticus 21:5159 votes
They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
Psalms 133:2129 votes
It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;
Ezra 9:3128 votes
And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.
Ezekiel 5:196 votes
And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber’s razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
Jeremiah 41:588 votes
That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the Lord.
1 Chronicles 19:4-575 votes
Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.
Isaiah 50:673 votes
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
1 Corinthians 11:1471 votes
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
2 Samuel 19:2469 votes
And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.
Isaiah 15:265 votes
He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
Ezekiel 44:2059 votes
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
Jeremiah 48:3748 votes
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
Isaiah 7:2035 votes
In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
1 Samuel 21:1332 votes
And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
2 Samuel 10:529 votes
When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
Judges 16:1720 votes
That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother’s womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
Amos 8:1020 votes
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Jeremiah 49:3218 votes
And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the Lord.
Acts 18:1816 votes
And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.
Psalms 133:1-214 votes
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
1 Corinthians 11:1-3413 votes
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Song of Songs 5:1010 votes
My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.
What does the Bible say about facial hair?
Readers most often cite Leviticus 19:27 on the subject of facial hair. Across 1,720 votes, 24 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 2 Samuel 10:4-5, Leviticus 21:5, Psalms 133:2. This page lists all 24 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.